So you want to set up your own wiki using ikiwiki? This turorial will walk you through setting up a wiki that is stored in [[Subversion]] and that has optional support for commits from the web. 1. [[Install]] ikiwiki. apt-get install ikiwiki 2. Create the subversion repository for your wiki. svnadmin create /svn/wikirepo svn mkdir file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk -m create 3. Check out the repository to make the working copy that ikiwiki will use. svn co file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk ~/wikiwc 4. Create some files them into subversion. echo "Welcome to my empty wiki." > ~/wikiwc/index.mdwn echo "Feel free to edit this page" > ~/wikiwc/sandbox.mdwn svn add ~/wikiwc/*.mdwn svn commit ~/wikiwc -m add 5. Build your wiki for the first time. ikiwiki --verbose ~/wikiwc/ ~/public_html/wiki/ \ --url=http://host/~you/wiki/ Replace the url with the right url to your wiki. You should now be able to visit the url and see your page that you created earlier. 6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 as desired, editing or adding pages and rebuilding the wiki. You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as --wikiname too. Get conformatble with its command line. 7. Set up a Subversion [[post-commit]] hook to automatically rebuild your wiki when you commit to it. ikiwiki ~/wikiwc/ ~/public_html/wiki/ \ --url=http://host/~you/wiki/ --wrapper mv ikiwiki-wrap /svn/wikirepo/hooks/post-commit 8. Set up a [[CGI]] to allow editing the wiki from the web. ikiwiki ~/wikiwc/ ~/public_html/wiki/ \ --url=http://host/~you/wiki/ --wrapper --cgi chmod 6755 ikiwiki-wrap mv wrapper ~/public_html/wiki/ikiwki.cgi Note that this assumes that your web server will run CGI scripts from your public_html directory. You might need to put it somewhere else depending on your web server configuration. 9. Add links to the CGI to all the pages in your wiki, and update your post-commit hook to add such links when updating the wiki in the future. Note the use of the [[WrapperParamsTrick]]. ikiwiki $(/svn/wikirepo/hooks/post-commit --params) --rebuild ikiwiki $(/svn/wikirepo/hooks/post-commit --params) \ --cgiurl=http://host/~you/wiki/ikiwiki.cgi \ --wrapper mv ikiwiki-wrap /svn/wikirepo/hooks/post-commit Be sure to change the cgiurl to the actual url to the wiki.cgi you installed in step 9. 10. Enjoy your new wiki!